Intermarriage

[sSsflamesSs]

I'm not a fan of intermarriage. Races should stay separate. This is not to say that I am racist against people who do intermarry.

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by sSsflamesSs I'm not a fan of intermarriage. Races should stay separate. This is not to say that I am racist against people who do intermarry.

Yes - put up some fences and cling to the past and never leave your parents' shadow.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by loseyourname Yes - put up some fences and cling to the past and never leave your parents' shadow.

Believe it or not, Armenian history has alot to do with why most Armenians stick to themselves.

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by Anonymouse Believe it or not, Armenian history has alot to do with why most Armenians stick to themselves.

I specifically said that this thread is not specific to Armenians. Every ethnic slice I have in me has experienced some form of genocide or hatred, and the fact that I have more than one has not hurt me. It allows to look at things a little more objectively than anyone else here. I stick to myself, not to others who look like me.

[sSsflamesSs]

Originally posted by loseyourname Yes - put up some fences and cling to the past and never leave your parents' shadow.

You sound a little bitter there, Adam.

All of what you said are groundless assumptions.

My decision has nothing to do with clinging to the past. In fact, it has to do with the future. Sorry if I feel a bit patriotic. All day I hear Americans raving about how patriotic they are, so why can't I do the same? If I abandon my nation, then who will stick up for it? A foreigner?

Secondly, only an Armenian can understand me completely. I was not born in the States - I spent the better half of my life in Armenia, so I can't deny my love for my country, and I cannot deny the probable extinction of Armenians if the status quo remains unchanged (that Armenians begin to intermarry).

Only an Armenian speaks my mother language. Only an Armenian will be able to relate to what I have gone through.

As the Mouse said, diversity leads to the lack of it.

I don't live in my parents' shadow. They care for their daughter as one day you will too care for your child (if you decide to have any). My parents have absolutely no power over who I will end up marrying, if I ever find someone that will complete me. I hold the power of that decision - no one else.

[loseyourname]

Diversity has nothing to do with race. There is as much diversity within a race as there is without one. Diversity comes in having your own ideas. If your ideas are based largely around a national or ethnic identity, they are not truly yours, and you are taking away from potential diversity, not adding to it. My children will grow up under the shadow of nothing, and they will not be ruled by a flag or a skin color and they will not see people as Armenian and Cherokee, they will see them as Adam and Anna.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by loseyourname Diversity has nothing to do with race. There is as much diversity within a race as there is without one. Diversity comes in having your own ideas. If your ideas are based largely around a national or ethnic identity, they are not truly yours, and you are taking away from potential diversity, not adding to it. My children will grow up under the shadow of nothing, and they will not be ruled by a flag or a skin color and they will not see people as Armenian and Cherokee, they will see them as Adam and Anna.

No ones ideas are theirs missy. We've already established this, but your arrogance refuses to accept that your thoughts could have been conceived by someone a thousand years before you.

As far as diversity, we are speaking strictly with peoples diversity, not ideas.

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by Anonymouse No ones ideas are theirs missy. We've already established this, but your arrogance refuses to accept that your thoughts could have been conceived by someone a thousand years before you.

As far as diversity, we are speaking strictly with peoples diversity, not ideas.

Yes, you want people to look different. You don't want them to be different.

[sSsflamesSs]

Originally posted by loseyourname Yes, you want people to look different. You don't want them to be different.

What?! Where did he say he doesn't want for them to be different?

When we say diversity, we mean diversity in all senses of the word, not just one aspect of it.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by loseyourname Yes, you want people to look different. You don't want them to be different.

Well, way to go in attributing something to me I did not say. Diversity is diversity, let's not make this elastic.

This is no different than morons saying morality is subjective.